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SymbioticA at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, is an evolving place of artistic investigation that is accessible to people throughout Western Australia and beyond, offering artists-in-residence cutting edge technology and the ability to realise projects that involve scientific/biological experiments. See http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au

SymbioticA Tissue Engineering and Art Workshop prepared by Oron Catts of SymbioticA – The Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, Laboratories of the Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona. Tissue culture and tissue engineering represent a new area for artistic engagement. These branches of biomedical research have a major influence on perceptions of body, self […]

Arte Contemporáneo arranges the following seminars on biomedicine / biotechnology and art in Madrid, 9 – 13 February 2006: — “The Era of Posthuman Engineering” (presentation vs. participants), — “From Body Art to the Transgenic Body” (participants vs. presentation) , — “The Posthuman Body: Hybridization Between Flesh and Prosthesis” (presentation vs. participants), — “Biotechnology: the […]

The Nobel Museum in Stockholm opens a new exhibition, ‘Läkekonst blir vetenskap’ (‘Medicine from art to science’), Tuesday 28 March 2006. It’s not on their website yet, but soon …

Endo-Ecto is an interdisciplinary symposium on endoscopy and related themes organised by live artist Phillip Warnell (thanks to Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick for telling us). Endo-Ecto – Phillip Warnell February 10, 2006, 3-8 PM Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London SW1 Presented by The Arts Catalyst, devised by Phillip Warnell […]

In our series of posts about medical museums that must be seen (for earlier presentations, see here and here), the turn has now come to the on-line Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art which “exhibits the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric art inspired by research from neuroscience and dissection”. This “world’s largest” […]

Call for papers for Southwest Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 1-2 April, 2006. For details, see Philosophy of Biology blog, 12 Dec. 2005.

EASST Conference “Reviewing humanness: bodies, technologies and spaces”, 23-26 August, 2006, University of Lausanne. Paper and session proposals will now be accepted up to the new deadline of January 16th, 2006 Session proposals are provisionally published on the conference website ( see “what’s new”). Send your session proposal as soon as possible to easst2006@unil.ch

(Oplægget blev oprindeligt skrevet den 21. nov, men pga de mange kommentarer er det opdateret til den 6. dec) Hører biobanker — og især det materiale som er i dem — til Medicinsk Museions aktivitetsområde?

Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK) at the University of Oslo February 2nd.- 3rd 2006 Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world! Decades of science-studies have demonstrated the ways in which knowledge is power; the ways in which laboratories in particular, and science, in general, are generative and transformative nature-factories. Through […]

The worlds of media, consulting, medical science and literature are interacting in different and interesting ways, like the Café Scientifique organisation. Another initative has been taken by Plumbland Consulting Ltd., a consulting company owned by two partners with a bioscience background and a strong interest in science policy and science communication. They have started SciTalk, […]

Here’s a slightly delayed, but interesting news item from the world of collections: the RLG (which is a non-profit Mountain View-based organization with the aim to help scholars get ‘access to research materials held in libraries, archives, and museums’) had a meeting in July 2005 under the heading ‘Libraries, Archives, & Museums—Three-Ring Circus, One Big […]